Category: Friendships

Much has been written about the friendship — both political and personal — between Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill during the 1980s. In this next phase of the series, New Year; New Types of Friends, I’ll provide several examples of real-life friendship in politics, sports, literature, and entertainment. This first one is between the president and one of his rivals, which shows a friendship that fulfills more than one of the trusted friendships every man needs. As I wrote in the Introduction to Examples of Real-life Friendships, every man needs to include and connect often with six “archetypes” of friends who become his inner circle. By definition, an archetype is a pattern of behavior, prototype, or object to copy, emulate, or merge into that motivate human behavior, influence feelings, and affect our degree of consciousness. It’s said that people become the average of the five people with whom they spend the

My current GodBuddy series, New Year; New Types of Friends suggests that every man must evaluate his friendships periodically. I included posts about The Philosophy, The History, The Psychology, and The Physiology (physical aspects) to help us understand some barriers to having close, intimate male friendships. I then wrote The Friendships Throughout a Man’s Life and How Much Time Men Need to Become Friends to explain why and how long it takes to find the friends every man needs. This post introduces the foundation for examples of friendships in politics, sports, literature, and entertainment.  My hope is these upcoming examples of real-life friendships are a fun diversion but are also educational. I have some initial ideas for the format but am not sure exactly how those will flow or how many examples I’ll provide. Feel free to provide feedback and suggestions along the way.  I trust this series also helps

Does it seem that your friendships are different than when you were younger? This next post on the various friendships in a man’s life, is excerpted from my recent book, Get Out of Your Man Cave: The Crisis of Male Friendship. I started this series, New Year; New Types of Friends by suggesting it was a good time to evaluate your friendships. I then wrote posts on The Philosophy of Friendship, The History of Friendship, The Psychology of Friendship, and The Physiology (physical aspects) of Friendship to explain why friends were important to men and to describe the barriers to making closer, intimate friendships. Upcoming posts will include examples of real-life friends in entertainment, politics, sports, and literature. I’ll also include a post on how long it takes to make friends and my formula for developing deeper, more authentic friendships. My hope is that this entire series helps you see why having a small group of men –what